Word: settlements
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Every so often a tiny upstart tackles a corporate giant and wins. Last week it was the turn of Manhattan-based American Natural Beverage, which should sell about $30 million of its Soho Natural Sodas this year. In an out-of-court settlement, the ten-year-old company forced Anheuser-Busch (1986 revenues: $7.6 billion) to drop the checkerboard logo that appears on its Zeltzer Seltzer sodas. American Natural had charged that the Zeltzer Seltzer design looked "confusingly similar" to its own. Said American Natural President Sophia Collier: "This just shows you have to fight for what's right...
Others are preoccupied by the fact that Israel is still besieged from within by frequent acts of random violence. A Jewish settler was killed a few weeks ago when her car was fire bombed on the road to the settlement of Alfei Menashe. In retaliation, settlers belonging to the extremist Gush Emunim movement rampaged through the nearby Arab town of Kalkilya. The West Bank's Bir Zeit University has been closed for four months, following student rioting that left one Arab dead at the hands of Israeli soldiers. Occupation authorities have shut down the school eleven times in the past...
...first decade of occupation, only about 5,000 hardy Israelis settled in the hot, dusty Jordan Valley. But in 1977, when the right-wing Likud bloc came to power, the pace accelerated because the Likud regarded settlement as a means of holding on to the land forever. Today nearly 60,000 Jews live in the West Bank, though 80% of them are city people who have been lured by cheap housing and tax breaks to move into new developments only a few miles from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Probably few of the 12,000 residents of Ma'ale Adumim...
...Jews in the more remote settlements, life is riskier. These are the communities that rub most against their Arab neighbors, partly because the Jewish residents are so aggressive in asserting their presence. Two weeks ago, hundreds of children from the hilltop settlements around Karnei Shomron marched down the road past Arab villages, chanting Israeli slogans and carrying signs heralding 20 years of settlement. To the Jewish settlers, such actions are not provocative but legitimate. Says Settlement Secretary Avner Vered: "These are religious people who believe they have the right to live all over Israel. When more Jews come here, nobody...
...Steven Harris. The attorney established that Martin, who had little money, was covered by a homeowner's insurance policy, making it possible to collect on a judgment. At his deposition, Martin admitted that he had not told Debbie about his infection. This March, Debbie and Martin agreed to a settlement of $119,052, to be paid by the insurance company...